Today, with the worldwide churning of blood and mud about to smother
us, our answer to these questions will decide India's destiny.

The present selection from Sri Aurobindo's writings is intended for
those who seek such an answer.

“India of the
ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has
still something to do for herself and the human peoples. And that which must
seek now to awake is not an anglicised oriental people, docile pupil of the
West and doomed to repeat the cycle of the occident's success and failure, but
still the ancient immemorable Shakti recovering her deepest self, lifting her
head higher towards the supreme source of light and strength and turning to
discover the complete meaning and a vaster form of her Dharma.”

Sri Aurobindo

To India,

the
ancient Mother

To Sri Aurobindo,

who saw her reborn

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“I write, not for the orthodox, nor for those
who have discovered a new orthodoxy, Samaj or Panth, nor for the unbeliever. I
write for those who acknowledge reason but do not identify reason with Western
Materialism; who are sceptics but not unbelievers; who, admitting the claims of
modern thought, still believe in India, her mission, her gospel, her immortal
life and her eternal rebirth.”

This book was
prepared by a team of researchers under the direction of Sujata Nahar. Any
profits arising from its sale will be entirely devoted to the spread of Sri
Aurobindo's vision of India and her future evolution.

The publisher of
this book, the Institut de Recherches Évolutives (“Institute for Evolutionary
Research”), has published in France the 13 volumes of L'Agenda de Mčre (Mother's Agenda) and looks after the worldwide
diffusion of Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's evolutionary experience. The
co-publisher, Mira Aditi, looks after the same work in India and Asia.

This compilation
was prepared from Sri Aurobindo's works published by Sri Aurobindo Ashram,
Pondicherry, India.